Posted by Thinker on September 30, 2012 at 13:23:42
In Reply to: Re: The TF sex story in a nutshell - my take posted by FH on September 24, 2012 at 13:42:31:
I don't get the same message whatsoever from the media that there is something wrong with me if I'm not ready for sex at any minute. I don't get it from Hollywood or advertising or anywhere else.
I also don't remember porn ever being bolstered in TFI to dull any senses. If anything, porn was part of directing the senses towards certain activities. The end goal was not to bolster pornography, but rather pornography was used as a minor tool to promote sexual attitude and activity. It was never emphasized, we didn't sit around watching or reading porn all day. The main tool was Berg's letters, which did not always contain what could be classified as porn.
I also cannot relate to your view of TFI using pornography to pave the road for limitless manipulation, making what was previously taboo acceptable. As politically incorrect as it may be to say this, there wasn't always clarity about what was permissible or taboo. A lot of people who joined at a young age hadn't fully worked out these things before joining. Berg came along and told them what to think about everything. Sex wasn't necessarily the central factor or inroad to that manipulation.
In fact, I don't see bounds being broken down in the world today to make adult-child sexual relations more acceptable. If anything it is getting clearer and clearer that it is not. There is a level of general public awareness that wasn't even there in the seventies or eighties.
And sexual debauchery isn't being used to pave the way for manipulation for other vices in society today. One could easily jump straight to gambling or drinking and bypass sexual debauchery altogether. There is no strategy to breakdown natural sexual boundaries in order to "lead to practically anything, as we have seen." I haven't seen that.